It doesnt stop there. The Democratic Partys concerted attacks on the Second Amendment are surely disquieting. Moreover, new reports circulating about some of the Obama administrations latest maneuvers, must, if they are true, be squarely confronted and made sense of. At the same time that ordinary Americans may be deprived of their guns, or forced to scale back on legitimate ownership of certain models and magazine capacities, the Department of Homeland Security has ordered millions of weapons and over a billion rounds of hollow-point bullets (banned internationally), as well as riot gear and other military equipment. The NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) has followed suit, putting in an order for 46,000 rounds of .40-caliber hollow-point bullets. Why, we may wonder, is a weather service being armed to the teeth? Are U.S. citizens now at risk from their own government? After all, the National Defense Authorization Act provides for indefinite detention without warrant or probable cause. The bill does not apply exclusively to terrorists or terror suspects held at Guantanamo Bay; even after a change of wording to allay fears of extra-judicial proceedings, the military may still retain the power to arrest and hold Americans without the writ of habeas corpus or, at any rate, without the obligation to take the judicial process further. As Senator Rand Paul objected, Saying that new language somehow ensures the right to habeas corpusthe right to be presented before a judgeis both questionable and not enough. Citizens must not only be formally charged but also receive jury trials and the other protections our Constitution guarantees. Habeas corpus is simply the beginning of due process. It is by no means the whole.

Some patriots are profoundly apprehensive over these developments, fearing something like a hostile takeover of civil society by a growing state apparatus.

Well, NOAA obviously needs to be well armed to enforce the coming Climate Change Law violations, i.e. people who use incandescent bulbs, run their thermostats too high, or fart excessively.

Or, it could just be the normal annual purchase of ammo for the NOAA’s Office of Law Enforcement that enforces laws that “conserve and protect our nation’s living marine resources and their natural habitat.”

...Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, ...

When elected officials and bureaucracies act outside the law they are simply lawbreakers. When the majority of the people vote in favor of total lawlessness they are withdrawing their consent to be governed by the rule of law. By what legitimate basis does the United States of America, as a Constitutional republic, still exist?

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

'The People' no longer support that. They voted in support of lawlessness from the highest office on down. They voted against the rule of law. By referendum we now have a banana republic. The USAINO.

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posted on 03/18/2013 9:38:59 PM PDT
by TigersEye
(The irresponsible should not be leading the responsible.)

” I say this to my American readers: One way or another, your trophy president is going to bring down your country. All the evidence points to the likelihood that he is not only an enemy of the United States of America, but its most formidable enemy in the world today. As I wrote in 2009, I do not fear Abbas, Zelaya, Putin, Chavez or the rest of that disreputable bunch. I am alarmed when I consider Ahmadinejad and Khamenei. But I am scared to death of Obama. You should be too.”

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posted on 03/18/2013 9:43:50 PM PDT
by Perseverando
(Gun control? It's really not about gun control is it? It's really about PEOPLE CONTROL!)

We are definately in the final stages. My brother thought it amusing (in an end of the country kind of way) when one of the libtards in the office started whining about his Subway footlongs going up to $6. The other nearby libtard tried to blame it on the lawsuits about them not being a full 12”, but he politely pointed out it was Zer0care. They didn’t answer.....

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posted on 03/18/2013 9:52:42 PM PDT
by mykroar
(Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.-Thomas Paine)

” your trophy president is going to bring down your country. “
_________________________________________________________

I agree, but it is a close call. The stupid/ignorant/moronic
public that elected him have launched the downfall of America.
Considering that he has just been reelected to continue the carnage, I have to conclude that there is little hope.

 I say this to my American readers: One way or another, your trophy president is going to bring down your country. All the evidence points to the likelihood that he is not only an enemy of the United States of America, but its most formidable enemy in the world today. As I wrote in 2009, I do not fear Abbas, Zelaya, Putin, Chavez or the rest of that disreputable bunch. I am alarmed when I consider Ahmadinejad and Khamenei. But I am scared to death of Obama. You should be too.

Thanks for the info. Yes, this man is as evil as humanly possible. We’ve seen nothing yet and I see no one who will stop him.

Daily there are new assaults on the fabric of our nation, and the assaults come as frequently from supposed Conservatives as from the Marxists. Almost none in power are on our side. The “Long March Through the Institutions” has come to the fruition the Communists have planned for over a hundred years. Here it is, folks.

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posted on 03/18/2013 10:10:38 PM PDT
by dagogo redux
(A whiff of primitive spirits in the air, harbingers of an impending descent into the feral.)

The government will do an end run on the second amendment by declaring guns a health hazard and, under Obamacare, claiming they have the power to restrict them in any way that endangers health as if guns were the same as a flu virus.

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